[CPS-devel] portal_catalog and generic_setup

[Florent Guillaume]

On 30 Jun 2006, at 10:18, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added some metadata to my portal-catalog, klicked the export-tab  
> the catalog and put the result in my products profiles/default/ 
> catalog.xml
>
> Now each time when I import my profile the catalog is "refreshed".  
> I exspected that to happen the first time, but not every time.

The catalog is always refreshed when a profile is read for it. This  
is to be sure that all data is indexed correctly. Correctness first.
There has been talk of doing some optimizations to only refresh the  
needed indexes and metadata, but it's not been done yet.
See the comments in CPSCore/exportimport/catalog.py

Florent


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